On the local representation theory of symmetric groups

Abstract

Given a Sylow $p$-subgroup $P$ of a symmetric group, we describe the action of its normalizer on $\mathrm{Irr}(P)$. To this end, we establish a one-to-one correspondence between the irreducible characters of $P$ and certain equivalence classes of explicitly defined functions, which are also naturally suited to describing the Galois action.